Adam Idah

He had bad moments and good and even great, the goal was superb but the Forrest pass and the touch were *.

Overall he done well dropping deep, won the ball back a couple of times to kick off moves, held it well and linked play and done a good job. But could have had a great game if he done the business those first couple of times he had the chance.

 

To me, his goal today is a case of every squirrel finding a nut.

What we really need is for him to hit a run of form just ahead of the transfer window so we can minimise our losses.

 

Not good enough and (I hope I'll be proven wrong, of course) I can't see it in him (it's the eyes, I guess)
and I'm trying to forget the money side of things...

Let him go at some point

 

Watching his goal back he took it really, really well. Wasn't great first half, noone was, but glad he got us back in it.

 

The wee touch to shimmy it across was superb, great goal.

 

Im the opposite and see him being quality when he is older, technically he is a decent player and he is a good finisher and phyiscally quite decent like a wee mix of being strong and quick although not the best at either.

Just he's not fully developed or confident and probably not as strong as he will eventually be physically on the ball when he's 27/28 maybe even 32/33 or whenever it all comes together.

I actually think he will go on to have a really good career once he is fully developed and confident. Up to now really in his career he's been unable to force his way to playing every week but it will eventually happen.

I always think big strikers take a long time before they start turning it on, you can basically look to anyone.

Solanke probably came good about 25/26, Welbeck maybe 27/28, Rickie Lambert 26/27/28, Giroud 25/26. Dzeko, Negredo, Morata. Even ones like Lewandowski and Ibrahimovic even didn't hit their peaks till about 28-35.

Even Samaras from us, he was about 26/27 before he hit consistency and top form and managed although ended up on the wing. Someone like Daryl Murphy even went on to at 30-35 be pretty good and excellent in the English Championship and at the time would probably have been good for us.

Gyokeres, when you look at him this season, when he was 23/24 not many people would have seen him reaching this level at 26/27. But it happens all the time. Moise Kean, Watkins, Chris Wood, Marcus Thuram probably one of the top 10 strikers around the now, likely nobody would have predicted when he was 24/25.

Loads of strikers particularly 6ft-6ft4 strikers who aren't that quick or that strong, who only come into their own in their mid 20s and probably reach levels nobody thought a year or two ago and even the best of the best usually only hit their striker and even their peak in their 30s.

Idah might be quality in a year or two and just now is actually doing really well for a back-up while still developing.

 

He just looks like he's never in control of the ball. The way people used to go on about Starfelt looking awkward, the same applies to Idah but it's amplified when it's an attacker.

I don't know what his strengths are. Not got a good touch, hit and miss in front of goal, big but doesn't use his size to his advantage... quite lazy as well.

Need to improve in the summer.

 

I actually do see strengths, scores goals even though he never really gets a run of games. So he is never fully up to speed and probably confident either as every time he plays he's under pressure because it's like "chances" to try and get in the team and even if he does score goals he's probably still not going to get into the team.

I also think he has a good touch, good physicality and good mobility. Links play well, generally makes good decisions also when he does link play.

Some players are really clumsy or really dumb or really poor in front of goal but he mostly does the right things all the time.

He just needs to put it all together, all it maybe would take is 2 or 3 games, like he scores a hat-trick one game, a double the next, a last minute winner, gets a run of 5/6 starts, continues to perform, becomes confident that he's actually now a main player and going to be playing and then stays in the team. But still not reached that point yet.

I would say better touch than Giakoumakis, better brain than Edouard who for me was clueless and finishing probably similar to most of our strikers, not absolutley deadly like a Hooper but not much different to anyone else.

 

Said it before a decent instinctive finisher, 19 goals this season not too shabby. Not a great footballer but does have attributes

 

A lot of ifs there. He's done nothing to deserve 5 or 6 starts.

I think there's a lot of excuses made for him. The truth of the matter is he's had plenty of minutes this season and been unconvincing, to say the least.

 

He scored the equaliser today.

But continue...

 

I think he does pretty well.

Like January to now for Celtic and Ireland he has 11 goals in 25 games, having only started 14 games.

Theres really not much better you can do I think. Like is he going to score 18 goals in 25 games having only started 14. If he'd only scored 3 or 4 and otherwise was playing terrible I could see the point.

But he puts in a decent shift, is pretty good at linking the play and he scores a really good amount of goals.

As a back-up striker i'd rather have him than even Griffiths or Stokes as he can make an impact in big games as well, 3 goals in the CL, 3 against the huns(1 even in a final, a winner). Took big pressure penalties last season also in the League run in.

 

£9 M

 

Done absolutely fine for us, record is actually pretty good.

 

A goal today means he's played well this season? We know he can score goals, it's how many chances he needs and what else he offers that are the problems.

 

Yet has a far far better goals to games and mins than the darling of the support Kyogo has over past 2 seasons.

Price will constantly be used as a stick to beat him with by same group of supporters who constantly demand we spend more money on players

 

Well I'd argue that simply watching him play football, there's a lot he can do better.

 

I think it was pretty well established that Kyogo was below par in the last two seasons, so I'm not sure what bringing him up has to do with anything.

Your second point is one that I always find mind numbing and just nonsense, to be honest. I don't think anyone was "demanding" that we spend £9m on Idah.

We absolutely should spend more money on players. But on the right players. It's quite a simple concept.

 

But he does do a lot better than others.

As a back-up who is developing and maybe has 2/3 levels to go up he is performing well. I'd rather have Idah and Giakoumakis as our back-ups as you think they can do a job against anyone.

 

No, it does not.

Although his stats and goal return suggests he's had a DECENT season, added in with the fact he's popped up with a very important goal today.

In no shape or form is he anywhere near the level you're suggesting.